TALK: Broon water, white water, strippit water: uproar in Lerwick Town Council, 1932-1936
Thursday, August 15th 2024 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Shetland Museum and Archives
One day in 1932 a science teacher at the Anderson Institute presided over a routine experiment in his class. The results turned politics in Lerwick upside down for four year.
Labour councillors (the ‘White Water’ group) and the so-called Ratepayers’ Association (‘Brown Water’) were at each others’ throats for years on the subject. ‘Strippit Water’ was a crazy compromise for a while!
The Sandy Loch water controversy is forgotten now, but in the early thirties it was all that Lerwegians could think about.
Join our archivist, Brian Smith, as he uncovers the political unrest caused by the most unlikely of sources!
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